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Sally Prue

The warmth of ice: art in the Ice Age

April 4, 2013May 25, 2017Oxford Childrens

Sally Prue, author of Song Hunter , on the very beginnings of art and creative thinking, including her experience of visiting the British Museum exhibition on Ice Age Art . (This is an expanded version of a piece first posted on Sally’s Song Hunter blog .) Making up stuff is important. No, really: life and death important. Writing a story or painting a picture may […]

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The Mammoth in the Room: Sally Prue and Song Hunter

February 6, 2013May 25, 2017Oxford Childrens 1 Comment

Sally Prue on the influence of her childhood on her latest novel,  Song Hunter : the story of a girl at the dawn of the Ice Age. ‘Hm,’ said my husband Roger. ‘This is a very autobiographical novel, isn’t it.’ Now the startling thing about Roger’s comment is that the book in question was my novel Song Hunter; and Song Hunter is not […]

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